
Sean O’Hagan
Sean O’Hagan writes about photography for hlcarpenter.com and the Observer, and is also a general feature writer
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Rodin, Bacon and Eileen Agar will be big, but Abramovic’s art attack could eclipse them all. Plus Frank Gehry unleashes a tornado and Helen Levitt shows how street photography should be done
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The former Talking Heads frontman on the importance of performance, covering Janelle Monáe, and his hope for the American experiment
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They grew up in a ‘nowhere’ suburb in the 70s, smoking skunk, going for rides and dating girls. The photographer reveals why he decided to capture the ravages of time on his old childhood gang
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Beaumont draws on multiple literary sources in his paean to the joys of thinking while pounding the city streets
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The celebrated actor brings his youth in Dublin to vivid life in a tender account of how failing as a priest and a plumber led him to Hollywood
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The writer on Black British culture discusses his feelings about the future of race relations and his friendship with Steve McQueen
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The director on the reggae-fuelled house parties he witnessed as a child - lovingly recreated in his new film, Lovers Rock – and how their raw energy shaped his taste in music
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Lockdown culture 'A roadmap to redemption': how a photographer helped a prisoner see beyond his cage
After a Minnesota inmate wrote to Alec Soth on impulse this year, the two began a freewheeling exchange of ideas on culture and isolation that developed into an astonishing new book -
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Best culture 2020 The best photography and architecture of 2020: high camp to Dungeness